Data Visualization

Programming Support

My curated list of online resources for learning R.

R in general

Statistical Programming DC, primarily a R user group
Official intro to R
Coursera videos on R
Focus on ggplot2: Healy, Data Visualization for Social Science: A practical introduction with R and ggplot2
Wickham and Grolemund, R for Data Science

Graphs in R

Producing Simple Graphs in R
Wickham, Ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis

Maps in R

Biologist on maps in R
Micromaps, a very cool map plus chart
Google Maps with R

Data Visualization Webpages and Blogs

Data Visualization Events

Lincoln Institute's Place Database Contest, due March 4

Data Visualizations: Those to Emulate and Not

Visualizations to Emulate

A super-duper bar chart on elections with all kinds of extra info
Change over time that is not a line chart: introduction of vaccines and measles prevalence by state
Information is Beautiful; see especially their annual awards
“A Field Guide to Red and Blue America”, Wall Street Journal; map and bar chart and change over time
How to show quantities: lawn and house size over time

Visualizations Not to Emulate

See scatter plot, scrolling down (“Negative Equity...”)
Inequality by city
New housing units built in California over time
Shares in confusing depictions, via an article about pre-trial detention in DC from the Washington Post
Guns over time from the Washington Post
Confusing bar charts about wearable fitness from the Wall Street Journal

And others to think for yourself

Energy maps: quantities of subsidy, and source and destination uses
Pedestrian crashes in DC, written about written here
Five Thirty Eight's weirdest charts of 2014

Data you could analyze

Elections summary data, table form
On elections data, by statistics guru Andrew Gelman

Icons for Everything

Blackboard

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